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.NET Forum / Visual Studio.NET / Setup / February 2007VS2005 project creation failed.
Moving this from unmonitored group microsoft.public.vstudio.general to this monitored group: I've had this (subject) problem with VS2005 since it's been installed last summer or so. I got around it by creating the project with VS2003.Net then convert it in VS2005. So yesterday I decided to just bite the bullet and uninstall everything and attempt a reinstall. I found this blog and follow the steps that would work (http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2005/12/16/504906.aspx) I uninstalled VS2003.Net, VS2005, and several of the other items installed as listed at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa718704.aspx. (couldn't use the uninstaller since it said nothing found). Did the additional steps as the blog suggested. I then rebooted, reinstalled VS2005, reinstalled SP1, rebooted, now I'm right back at the same point where I can't create projects. This is a VC++ project. It will create the directory for the project/solution but then you just get: "Creating project 'projname'... project creation failed. in the status bar. Also, the icons associated with .cpp/.hpp/etc files still just look like a text piece of paper (rather than the old C++/H++ color icons of VS2003). Now that VS2003.Net isn't installed, I can't create projects at all, I'd have to copy them over from another project and open it. How do I fix VS2005? MORE INFORMATION: I ran filemon to see what it was doing and it looks like the program is not working correctly (being nice) to me... Creating a VC++ Win32Project: Name: linktest Location: x:\testing\c\linktest Solution Name: linktest Filemon shows that it creates: x:\testing\c\linktest\linktest (By the way, I don't like not being able to set my own dir because it doesn't match my directory scheme) Then it turns around and does a search for a bunch of .dsw,vcw,csproj,vbproj,etc.. in: x:\testing\c\linktest\linktest\linktest (eg: x:\testing\c\linktest\linktest\linktest\linktest.dsw) which results in a bunch of Path Not Found errors. Then it does some stuff on C: then it comes back and tries to open dir x:\testing\c\linktest\linktest\linktest and gets path not found (that's last access to x: drive). Hello David, From your description, on one of your dev machine, after you installed the VS 2005 and SP1, you can not create some VC++ Win32 projects, and this even occur after you reinstall the Visual Studio 2005, correct? As for the problem, does it only occur against C++ win32 project, is there any other project that suffer the same project? Based on my experience, for such behavior that reinstall still not work, it may be caused by some other system wide settings get corrupetd or the underlying harddisck get messed. Have you tried creating a new interactive account on that machine and logon through the different account to see whether the problem remains? Sometimes some data got damaged in user profile may also cause IDE not work. Also, for visual studio, the VC specific project items and templates are under the following directory: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC you can look for those sub dirs(which contains template items) and compare to some working machine's installed folder to see whether there is any obvious difference. Sincerely, Steven Cheng Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead ================================================== Get notification to my posts through email? 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It was doing it with just VS2005 installed, I added SP1 to see if it would fix it. When it didn't, I did the full uninstall thing. It's related to the user profile. I logged off and back on as administrator, then mapped the drive x: using my (pgmr) account and I was able to create the project on the same machine. What do I need to look for in my profile? > Hello David, > [quoted text clipped - 52 lines] > This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no > rights. You're all probably scratching your heads .. anyway, I found it... one of the other problems I mentioned in other NG posts was the file associated icons sucked (just like a white piece of paper with writing - notepad basically). Well looking into that I found that the .c/.cpp/etc entries in the registry Classes Root looked okay, but it reference VisualStudio.x.8.0 (where the x is c, cpp, etc) and I couldn't access those. So I look at the permissions and only administrators had access to it (I'm a power user). Looking at the root classes, it (for some reason) had "everyone" set to full access and the installer must have change those installed keys to the wrong permissions (I had to install as administrator). I change the Classes Root to match what it should (based on another system) and force the change down and while not everything could be changed (per regedit), it did change the visualstuido.x.8.0 references and now not only do I get the nice file icons, the project creation works as well!! > Hello David, > [quoted text clipped - 52 lines] > This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no > rights. Thanks for your followup David, Glad that you've finally got it working. Actually manually recover user profile(for such VS 2005 issue) would be quite complex, there is no definite routine on this. Anyway, thanks again for sharing us the experience on this which can surely benefit other members who suffer the similar problem. Sincerely, Steven Cheng Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Free MagazinesGet these publications absolutely FREE for up to 12 months. There are no hidden fees and no obligation. Simply choose a title, complete the application form and submit it. Read more ...
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